Chapter 101 - Ninety-Seven (1/2)

What Cain did not know is that, when I tried to call my fire army before I had to cut my magic from the two rascals that liked to suck it dry out of me; and because of that they were teleported right back to my side, quickly aware of the situation at hand, only waiting for the opportunity to attack give me an opening to escape his grasp.

That's why, when the conversation went down south, the two were right beside him and jumped out from the shadows, Darkjaw going for his back while Deadbite attacked from the front.

I back off from his range of attack, already depleted of my magic by having those two rascals working full time, plus the fact that I did not have a lot of mana to begin with; even more now because I tried to call the fire army which uses a lot of it only even though it was denied.

I use the opportunity to quickly enter my shadow and hide under the tree, any vision contact blocked by my stealth and the veil of darkness, adding to the fact that he would not be able to find me either.

I quickly think about the situation and if I should rush back to Isa and to Leonel; even more after he hinted what his intention was and his next plans; but a look over the situation makes me realize that if I don't end this right now things will only escalate out of control or, as they say, if I don't cut the weed from the start it will take over the garden.

So it would be best to just end him.

And I would love to vent some pin-up anger at him too as a bonus.

A crooked fangs smile raises my lip up as I go back to my hound form to preserve more energy and to better fight against him.

However, when I look back at him he doesn't seem amused with our attack, or rather, he seems rather bored and somewhat out of patient, as if dealing with a disobedient child, almost annoyed even.

And he sights, even though Darkjaw was bitting on his leg, and Deadbite had a knife sunk on his back.

”This is how you want to play then… very well, I shall indulge you in this dance for a while, but know this… I always get what I want, in the end.”

At that a strong force, like pure magic, emanated out of him as if a force-field exploded and the two Rascals were simply disintegrated while the force pushes forward harder, bringing the leaves back with branches and stone, cracking the structure of the constructions around.

I wasn't worried about those two, after all they would be ok as long as I lived, but what worried me the most was what Cain was up to.

I stay alert, and yet… he does not attack me, instead he reaches out for his own face. At first I could not discern what he was doing as his fingers pressed down on his skin with strength.

Then I understood it.

He was pulling the skin off!

Petrified about what I was looking at I watch as the skin on his face comes out like wax, as if he was taking off a mask, a mask pretty much glued to his face, but that somehow was his face.

It was underrated to say that I was horrified yet amused with the scene that played in front of me.

I could not make out what was underneath the wax as he pulled out, only seeing the pieces of skin that fell down and how pulling at his skin started to feel like it consisted of a weird mixture of flesh, goo and wax, all into a slimy substance that gave way to his fingers as he carved his nails into his own flesh.

Thankfully I could not see well otherwise I may only phantom how his eyes and teeth looked like as he pulled their cover out, and seconds later I couldn't see anything anymore as the pieces of skin that fell down before start to crumble and disintegrate into smaller and smaller pieces as they became smoke and cover my vision of Cain.

Strangely enough it did not produce a lot of smoke, but the white fleeing substance seemed to be attracted by Cain, becoming very dense around him, enough that even his silhouette disappeared amidst the smoke.

I stay alert, waiting for him to attack, ambush me,  trying to figure out what he was up to, but my curiosity takes the best of me when it takes far too long for me to see anything.

So I peek with my third eye.